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United States
California, Northern Section
Dean Arthur Dugoni of UOP’s Arthur Dugoni School of Dentistry announced his retirement as Dean effective 30 June 2006. “These past 26 years have truly been a labor of love filled with wonderful experiences and dedicated, caring, and generous individuals who have touched my life, made a difference, and contributed significantly to the dental school’s successes and my growth as a person.” Dean Dugoni will have a continuing relationship at the dental school in assisting the broader university in fund raising for the undergraduate science program on the main campus, as well as assisting the next dean on dental school objectives. University President Donald DeRosa stated that “Art’s talents and abilities will continue to enrich the education of the University of the Pacific students beyond his time as Dean. And we all will benefit from his continuing effort.”
Dr. Dugoni is credited with raising $50.8 million towards the School of Dentistry’s capital campaign, one of the largest in the history of dental education.
An international search for the next Dean has begun. University President DeRosa has appointed Dr. Phillip Oppenheimer, Dean of the Thomas Long School of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, as Chair of the Search Committee.
The PFA Grant Awardee Dr. Nader A. Nadershahi, Associate Professor and Group Practice Administrator for the Arthur Dugoni School of Dentistry, has been appointed Chair of the Department of Dental Practice. Dr. Nadershahi will oversee and manage the educational curriculum; recruit, mentor, and monitor faculty and staff members as well as maintain relations with UOP’s administration, represent the department in forming academic policy, and serve on a variety of committees including the Student Academic Performance and Promotion Committee.
He has received numerous awards and accolades throughout his career serving as Vice President of the American Dental Education Association Leadership Institute Alumni Association, as Mentoring Coordinator for the ADA, as Faculty Advisor of the School of Dentistry’s National Dental Honor Society, as well as a member of all the dental societies.
He was awarded Fellowships from ICD and the American Dental Education Association Leadership Institute and from the Pierre Fauchard Academy, who presented him their Dental Faculty Development Grant Award in 2002.
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California, Southern Section
Trustee Charles Eller was one of some 500 who attended the two-hour funeral for past Loma Linda School of Dentistry Dean Judson Klooster. Loma Linda Chancellor Richard Hart, School of Dentistry Dean Charles Goodacre, and classmate UOP School of Dentistry Dean Art Dugoni spoke at the funeral. Dean Klooster earned his dental degree at the College of Physicians and Surgeons in San Francisco in 1947, married Arlene Jean Madsen the next year, while opening a dental practice in San Francisco. He moved his practice to Escondido the year after. He served in Korea as a Navy dentist attached to the First Division of the Marine Corps from 1954 to 1956. Upon his return from overseas, he became a clinical dental educator at Loma Linda University until 1967, when he gave up private practice and teaching to earn a graduate master’s degree in biomedical education from Tulane University. From 1968 until his retirement in 1994, he served Loma Linda University as Director of Continuing Education (1968-1972), Associate Dean for Academic Affairs (1969-1971), and Dean (1971-1994). He became Dean-Emeritus in 1994 and was awarded Alumnus of the Year.
Dr. Klooster and his wife Arlene had three daughters and five grandchildren.
One of the highest praises was bestowed by International Trustee Charles Eller in saying, “We lost one of the finest gentleman I have ever met.”
Trustee Charles Eller notes that their newsletter Perspectives is excellent for keeping in regular contact with their large membership informing them of completely equipping a dental office in a small village far down the Baja California peninsula, donating a set of surgical instruments to the Rescue Task Force for use in a remote Honduran jungle clinic, and actively soliciting used dental equipment for use in indigent areas.
Ohio
Chair Al Uvegas hosted their 46th Annual PFA Breakfast Meeting last Autumn in conjunction with the Ohio Dental Association Meeting in Columbus, Ohio. Over 114 attended to listen to Kelly Scheiderer, a nutritionist on the Ohio State University faculty, discuss “Lifestyle Choices—Choose Wisely”.
Their Distinguished Dentist of the Year Award was presented to Dr. Richard S. Buchanon of Spencerville by past recipients Drs. Ken Clemens and Jack Gottschalk.
Twelve new fellows were inducted into membership that morning by Chair Al Uvegas, but the memory of six lost during the year were also remembered.
Tennessee
Dr. Clifton O. Dummett, USC Professor-emeritus, received an Honorary Doctor of Science degree during the 2004 Convocation at Meharry Medical College for his exemplary 63-year career in dentistry. He graduated from Northwestern University School of Dentistry in 1941. He then took up a teaching position at Meharry Medical College as Professor and Chair of the Department of Periodontics (as a pioneer in periodontics), Oral Diagnosis, and Oral Medicine. He became Deputy Director of Dental Education. In 1947, at the age of 28, Dr. Dummett became the Dean of the Meharry School of Dentistry, the youngest dental school dean in the United States. Under his administration, the School of Dentistry was fully accredited by the ADA Council on Dental Education, the first time an Afro-American dental school had achieved such an honor. He resigned in 1949 because of the segregationist policies of the Regional Plan for Education, an organization that Meharry participated in.
In 1962, he sponsored an ADA resolution that effectively eliminated racial discriminatory restrictions from the ADA constituent organizations. In 1965, he was appointed associate professor at the University of Alabama School of Dentistry, the first African American to serve on that faculty.
He was named 1960 Dentist of the Year by the National Dental Association, served for 22 years as the Editor-in-Chief of the NDA publications, was appointed in 1977 as a member of the President’s Committee on National health Insurance, elected President of the Los Angeles Dental Society and received the 1982 NCAAP’s Academic, Cultural, Technological, Scientific Olympics Award.
Wisconsin
International Trustee James Englander was proud to report that the front page of the Wisconsin Dental Association Journal featured their Section’s 10th annual Mentor Dinner to honor their jointly sponsored program at Marquette University School of Dentistry. The program includes 238 students and 140 mentors. The article mentions that the award-winning program was initiated by then PFA Section Chair James Englander, Marquette Dean Ken Zachariasen, Dr. Gene Shoemaker, and Dr. Keith Clemence. The Mentorship Program has grown each year and now includes all four years of dental students
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Massachusetts
Chair Norm Becker notes that their Section’s cosponsored CHIP Program has child ID’ed their 200,000th child. The Lynn Public School System is the 45th municipality in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to adopt the CHIP Program for all students grades K through 12. This and our cosponsorship with the Masonic Organization were reported in the Boston Globe, The Lynn Item, The Lynn Journal, and the Salem Evening News. The pictures that accompanied the articles had the PFA banner in the background.
Michigan
Chair Virginia Merchant has served for 10 outstanding years and has retired. Dr. Joseph C. Harris has been selected to succeed Dr. Merchant.
Minnesota
President Michael Perpich attended their Section Meeting last Fall to assist in inducting six new Fellows into membership and to update the Section on PFA’s international activities.
Montana
Chair Bert Winterholler addressed the 9th District Dental Society in Billings about PFA membership and its activities. He has also asked for time to give a similar address to the 4th District Dental Society. Dr. Winterholler also serves on the Montana Tobacco Use Prevention Board.
New York
Fellow Howard B. Fine, an endodontist from Pittsford, received the New York State Dental Association’s Distinguished Service Award last November at the Board of Governors Meeting in Manhattan. He was nominated by a committee of his peers for his outstanding activities in organ
ized dentistry. He served on the NYSDA Executive Committee, on its Board of Governors, and as Chair on its Council on Dental Benefits, its Council on Insurance and its Task Force on Governance. He has represented New York on the ADA Board of Trustees and as a member of the ADA House of Delegates.
Dr. Fine is a past President of the Seventh District Dental Society serving the Rochester region of NYSDA, and received their highest honor, the George Greenwood Award.
This NYSDA Award is the same one presented to our Foundation’s Executive Director Fred Halik a few years ago.
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